DaveRindner Posted August 19, 2016 Posted August 19, 2016 [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPTyB3DXhJ8[/ame] Couple of clips are really impressive. F-111 in spin departure. The crew pop the drag chute, which stabilized the aircraft in nose down attitude. Then eject cleanly from the aircraft. That is two ballsy aviators. The Ukranian SU-30MK. Spin departure, and recovery a little to late with stall, and grazed the ground just enough to destroy the engines, but enough energy to get altitude in nose up attitude, followed by clean ejection. Mig-29 airshow ingesting a large bird. I think the pilot was Anatoly Kvarchure, and this was in 1989 Air Tattoo, or 1990 Ramstein air show. Big shouout to the ejection seat designers. The guy left the cockpit few hundred feet above ground, and his had time to pop and inflate. The US Navy cold cat shots. You feel for the aviators, being failed by technology tottally out of their controll.
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